Available: Free roe buck stalk for a complete novice west sussex
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All 38 novice names have been put into the hat and drawn this morning.
Due to a large number of novices applying I have decided to add a further outing for free this coming winter on Fallow/Roe. Therefore there are 2 winners.
The winner for the Roe Buck stalk is RED DRAGON.
The winner for the winter outing on Fallow/Roe, again in West Sussex is RAINMAN.
Thank you to everyone who put their names in, and I hope you able to get out stalking soon.
Due to a large number of novices applying I have decided to add a further outing for free this coming winter on Fallow/Roe. Therefore there are 2 winners.
The winner for the Roe Buck stalk is RED DRAGON.
The winner for the winter outing on Fallow/Roe, again in West Sussex is RAINMAN.
Thank you to everyone who put their names in, and I hope you able to get out stalking soon.
Sikamalc has just phoned me to say I have won the Roe deer day. Can tell you it has made my day 
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This is just the sort of thing that makes this forum great !!!!!
Thank you for making this available.
Cheers Robbie
.This is just the sort of thing that makes this forum great !!!!!
Thank you for making this available.
Cheers Robbie
sikamalc
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Sikamalc has just phoned me to say I have won the Roe deer day. Can tell you it has made my day
This is just the sort of thing that makes this forum great !!!!!
Thank you for making this available.
Cheers Robbie
No problem Robbie,
You have a PM with full details sent this afternoon. Please get back to me if there are any questions.
Well done
Malcolm
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Looking forward to it immensely, will report back here when it is all over and done.
Just been checking the zero on the .243!!!!
Just been checking the zero on the .243!!!!
Hi all,
First many thanks to Malcolm for a wonderful day out.
Arrived at the Bothy at around 4am in the morning just as first light was coming up.
On the way in saw a deer in the edge of the headlamps and then bumped a couple of roe where I was asked to park, all good signs I reckoned.
Met Malcolm and we set off around looking for a roe that had been spotted earlier that Malcolm was keen to get but we did not find it, although we watched a fallow doe feeding down a small ride.
We then went on a bit and we got within 20-30 yards of three fallow at a crossing ride, they were completely unaware that we were even there.
We saw a couple of roe but they ran across the ride and quickly got lost in the very thick undergrowth that seems to take up a lot of the estate.
Having done that walk, we then moved to another part of the estate where a couple of roe usually hung out, we stalked in to a roe but it turned out to be a doe so left alone, no sign of the buck there.
After that we went to another part where little shooting had taken place in recent times.
There Malcolm spotted a pair of years lying down in the headland next to a field of badly hit rape, the pigeons had hammered that field.
After confirming that it was a buck, we stalked to within a hundred yards of the animal which was more interested in watching the edge of the wood at the bottom of the field.
We then went forward to about eighty yards and set up the sticks and waited for the buck to stand up and waited and waited. Could see that the flies were bothering the buck as he keep twitching his ears furiously.
After about 45 minute he finally stood up giving a broad side view but he had his head back scratching away at his back and right side so we waited for him to put his head forward which seemed to take for ever. Finally he turned his head back and looked as if he was about to take off so I squeezed the trigger and down he went without a twitch or kick.
We walked forward and Malcolm congratulated me on my first ever roe buck, head was quite poor and a good cull buck to be taken out of the system.
When we got it back to the larder found I had shot a little forward and high but had shattered the vertebrae just in front of the shoulder, the bullet had then turned and exited through the rib cage on his right side, cutting through several ribs on the way out.
Once again my most grateful thanks to Malcolm for this chance so freely given and sorry that the others who entered did not get the chance I had.
Needless to say I will be booking a return trip in the winter, hopefully to get a fallow this time, stalking is addictive.!!!
Returned to deerless West Wales with a roe buck in the boot, had soon dressed it out and cut up ready for the freezer.
Sorry no pictures but the ones I took on my phone seemed to have disappeared or did not save for some reason.
First many thanks to Malcolm for a wonderful day out.
Arrived at the Bothy at around 4am in the morning just as first light was coming up.
On the way in saw a deer in the edge of the headlamps and then bumped a couple of roe where I was asked to park, all good signs I reckoned.
Met Malcolm and we set off around looking for a roe that had been spotted earlier that Malcolm was keen to get but we did not find it, although we watched a fallow doe feeding down a small ride.
We then went on a bit and we got within 20-30 yards of three fallow at a crossing ride, they were completely unaware that we were even there.
We saw a couple of roe but they ran across the ride and quickly got lost in the very thick undergrowth that seems to take up a lot of the estate.
Having done that walk, we then moved to another part of the estate where a couple of roe usually hung out, we stalked in to a roe but it turned out to be a doe so left alone, no sign of the buck there.
After that we went to another part where little shooting had taken place in recent times.
There Malcolm spotted a pair of years lying down in the headland next to a field of badly hit rape, the pigeons had hammered that field.
After confirming that it was a buck, we stalked to within a hundred yards of the animal which was more interested in watching the edge of the wood at the bottom of the field.
We then went forward to about eighty yards and set up the sticks and waited for the buck to stand up and waited and waited. Could see that the flies were bothering the buck as he keep twitching his ears furiously.
After about 45 minute he finally stood up giving a broad side view but he had his head back scratching away at his back and right side so we waited for him to put his head forward which seemed to take for ever. Finally he turned his head back and looked as if he was about to take off so I squeezed the trigger and down he went without a twitch or kick.
We walked forward and Malcolm congratulated me on my first ever roe buck, head was quite poor and a good cull buck to be taken out of the system.
When we got it back to the larder found I had shot a little forward and high but had shattered the vertebrae just in front of the shoulder, the bullet had then turned and exited through the rib cage on his right side, cutting through several ribs on the way out.
Once again my most grateful thanks to Malcolm for this chance so freely given and sorry that the others who entered did not get the chance I had.
Needless to say I will be booking a return trip in the winter, hopefully to get a fallow this time, stalking is addictive.!!!
Returned to deerless West Wales with a roe buck in the boot, had soon dressed it out and cut up ready for the freezer.
Sorry no pictures but the ones I took on my phone seemed to have disappeared or did not save for some reason.
Big well done to you & Malc! So glad to hear you got one!
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